Office of the Historian

393.1163P92/249: Telegram

The Chargé in Japan (Dooman) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, August 11, 1939—1 p.m.
[Received August 11—6 a.m.]

399. Department’s 248, August 9, 8 p.m.38 On July 13 I addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs a formal note emphatically objecting to continued occupation of Palmetto Presbyterian Mission property at Soochow and asking that arrangement be made for compensation for losses. A copy of the note was forwarded to the Department with my despatch No. 4036, July 14.38 I asked the Foreign Office today to expedite reply.

Shanghai please repeat to Chungking and Peiping.

Dooman
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